[antlr-interest] ANTLR & Scala?

[Randall R Schulz]

On Thursday 12 July 2007 17:09, Jonathan Thomas wrote:
> Talking about odd targets,

Odd? Scala looks like an intriguing and elegant language, to me. Not 
exactly how I'd describe, say, Groovy... Or, for that matter, Java 
itself.

The programming world needs better languages, and I'll put my money on 
those grounded in computing theory, mathematical formalisms and logical 
principles, any day!


> I was struck by the thought of producing 
> an x86 assembler target last night ... object-oriented assembler
> anyone? ;-)

Well, I'm sure something along those lines could be done, but you can't 
short-cut the complexity of a compiler. Realistically, machine code 
generation isn't simple.

In fact, the notion of an object-oriented assembly language isn't new. 
I'll bet if you search the 'Net, you'll find projects, though I'm 
unaware of any recently (and for good reason—portability matters, for 
one thing, and that's just one reason for highly stratified compiler 
designs, including the whole concept of virtual machines).


Randall Schulz